Behavior RTII

The goal of Bethel’s Response to Instruction and Intervention is to provide every student with the supports they need to be successful in school. It is a purposeful system based on a strength-based mindset, a continuous cycle of improvement and high expectations for ALL student populations, focused on reducing opportunity gaps. Teachers deliver culturally responsive, evidence-based instruction that is systematic and reliable and understand they are responsible for ensuring that students learn the skills and content, rather than just being exposed to it.

To increase student academic success, Bethel teachers focus on the following:

• Cultivate the belief with staff that ALL kids can learn and it is all staff’s responsibility to ensure they do.

• Create a shared vision and mission.

• Use disaggregated data to determine gaps between the current reality and the shared vision.

• Use evidence-based practices shown to reduce opportunity gaps.

• Utilize Bethel’s Asset-Based practices by recognizing and amplifying the strengths each person brings to the community and not associating systemic barriers with students and families (for example, historically underserved students, students navigating poverty, emerging bilingual students, students experiencing chronic absenteeism.)

• Develop and implement an action plan.

• Endorse collective accountability.

• Engage in reflective practice.

Adapted from Zmuda, Allison, Kuklis, Robert, and Kline, Everett, Transforming Schools: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement, Alexandria, VA: Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004.